Robinson: No Stormont sittings until crisis resolved

There will be no further routine meetings of the North’s power-sharing executive until the political crisis is resolved, Stormont’s First Minister Peter Robinson has said.

The Democratic Unionist Party failed in a bid for a four-week adjournment of the Northern Ireland Assembly after police said members of the Provisional IRA shot a man dead in East Belfast.

But Mr Robinson said it could not be business as usual as Assembly members returned from their summer break yesterday and warned his ministers could resign if crunch political talks due to start today are not successful.